William Weld

Politician

1945-07-31

Quotes by William Weld

• I don't understand the Democrats' approach to Social Security in this country, and I'm not alone.

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• My slogan when I ran was that there is no such thing as government money, there is only taxpayer's money, and that cut pretty deep.

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• Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government.

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• I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.

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• Do we believe that there is equal economic opportunity out there in the real world, right now, for each and every one of these groups? If we believed in the tooth fairy, if we believed in the Easter Bunny, we might well believe that.

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• The unemployment rate is still twice as high for blacks as for whites.

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• People aren't stupid. I mean, people remember in 1990, the unemployment rate was 10 percent. Now it's 4 _ percent. We've got 1/4 million jobs that we've created.

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• Speaking of tax fairness, it was Senator Kerry who voted to increase the income tax on senior citizens on Social Security, earning as little as $32,000 a year.

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• Government is never so noble as when it is addressing wrongs.

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